Month: September 2012

Although it has been available for about a month, the next major release of the StarWind iSCSI target is here! Some of the biggest features include (taken from here): High availability: – 3-node HA configuration. Synchronous mirroring between 3 nodes of an HA storage cluster. Such storage architecture ensures higher uptime and higher performance compared to a 2-node HA configuration. – HA device nodes manager. You can add, remove, or switch nodes of HA cluster … Read more…

The XBOX 360 is proving more and more useful these days. First, there is the Verizon FiOS app (which I have not tried yet). But more importantly is the fact that it is a Media Center Extender (one of the best…and only, really). I had paired it to a desktop that I wasn’t really using and could leave powered on… But the real power came when I upgraded the lab\infrastructure to VMware. I never had … Read more…

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Jacob 'Jake' Rutski works for Citrix on the Channel Architecture team. He holds several certifications from many technology vendors; and while all Citrix products are the majority of his focus, he does enjoy all things tech, automation, and storage - including FreeNAS\ZFS - and has been scripting everything in PowerShell lately...instead of VBScript. The content in this blog represent individual views, not those of Citrix